Process-Based Living Blog

If you're feeling stressed out about work or a relationship (or the state of the world in general), it may not just be the work or the relationship that is contributing to your experience of stress. In fact, your stress response is likely intensified by your habitual...

Ask almost anyone how they are doing these days and they'll take a short, quick breath, or a long sigh, before answering with the inevitable, "Busy." It's become the standard response for a society filled with overstimulated, highly distracted people under immense...

If I hadn't become a coach, I may have become an astronaut. As it turns out, the quality that would have made me a good astronaut is the same one that coaching skills helped me minimize: a tendency to frequently worry, fret and stew, or what I classify as "negative...

Recently, I had the opportunity to connect with Marion Gamel, a C-level executive and Registered Corporate Coach™. Marion is a graduate of the BCA Coaching Essentials Program and we chatted over Skype about her perspective on leadership and coaching, along with her...

This summer, I am sharing a special series called “Be the Tree: How to Work Smarter, Not Harder with Mindful Leadership.” I created it in response to: My own experience of finding myself with less time to think and more demands on my attention Discovering that many of...

This month, the "big idea" that the Business Coaching Advantage is working with is: attention matters. Where we choose to focus our attention can make all the difference between creating new success or maintaining the status quo (or failing to respond to a change that...

At a recent conference, I had the chance to dream big and tap into my intuition to see what I need most to realize my dreams. What I need, it turns out, is to let go of my self-image as a lone wolf and open up to the idea that we are all interconnected and capable of...

This month, the theme for the Business Coaching Advantage Program™ (BCA) is COURAGE. The theme itself gave me the courage to write about something I haven't had shared before: my love of tattoos. Read on about my story of getting a recent tattoo, and how it can...

3 Lessons and 3 Tips to Boost Your Career with Creativity Author Patti Digh wrote that "if you're alive, you're creative" but she could have fooled me. Until I resigned from my first career in financial technology and embarked on a new career in professional...

3 Ways to Deepen Your Exploration of Compassion Earlier in November, I attended a half-day mindfulness retreat focused on self-compassion and hosted by the Canadian Mindfulness Centre. The facilitator opened the retreat by inviting the participants to share our...

A Three-Step Process to Develop Positive Thinking (When You're Ready For It) "What a horrible summer we had," a friend pronounced to me recently, and she wasn't the first. It's become a common refrain in reference to the amount of rain we experienced in Toronto,...

If this is the year that you want to: Stand up and get noticed at work, Ask for what you want and need in your career (and don't take "no" for an answer), Show people that you are a leader and that you deserve to be taken seriously and gain recognition for all you...

A Rising Tide Lifts All Ships: How to Get Inspired by Workplace Competition I've never been too keen on competition, especially in the workplace. However, I was recently enlightened by a different perspective that blew my old win-lose mindset out of the water....

Breaking My Own Glass Ceiling: From "Less Than" To Leading I was almost forty years old when I began to think more about how some men pay less attention to what I have to say, seemingly because I am female. One man in particular, whom I looked up to, actively...

Savour Summer While it Lasts (and Boost Your Creativity!) Summer's here and it's time for some fun. Canadians only get to experience warm air, deep blue skies and delightfully green foliage for a few months of the year and if you're not careful, it can slip by...

Focus on Your Journey: How to Plan Financially for Successful Career Transition Do What You Love, The Money Will Follow is Marsha Sinetar's promise in her 1987 book of the same name. It's a satisfying, in-depth exploration into what it takes to create "vocational...

Why Taking Stock of New Trends is Essential for Your Career Lately, there's been a lot of talk about robots taking over jobs (see Wired or Forbes for related articles). As a professional coach, should I be worried? Should you? It's quite possible that a robot could...

Three ways to maximize your thinking for successful career transition We can solve most of our daily problems by thinking of a couple of available options and choosing the best one. Going to a new restaurant and not sure how to get there? Look it up on a map and...